Thread: Picking a color

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Hotrodpaint-

I have heard that painting with HOK kameleon paint (or similar color shifting paints) although expensive, lends itself well to painting parts of a car versus the whole car. Also touch up or repaint matching is little trouble due to the color shifting qualtities of the paint. Is that correct?

Originally Posted by mopar34

Hotrodpaint-

I have heard that painting with HOK kameleon paint (or similar color shifting paints) although expensive, lends itself well to painting parts of a car versus the whole car. Also touch up or repaint matching is little trouble due to the color shifting qualtities of the paint. Is that correct?

True. To the best of my knowledge, there is NO COLORED PIGMENT in the Kameleons. The paint only contains little prismatic flakes that refract, or break apart light. Besides, if it didn't match....who would know!

I doubt if most of these guys would be interested, as paying for materials is a real issue. For me, the best price on Kameleon type paints is the X-otic brand, at about $400 a quart, the last time I bought any. You would need 1-4 quarts, depending on the project, type of spray equipment, plus all of your other paint products that go into the job. The total for materials would be about $1000-$2000, depending on what you want to do, plus more to include graphics.

If you use it, you would want to be sure to put 3 wet coats on, to assure that there isn't too much of the base color showing through.

I've used Dupont Chrome Illustion paints with great results, covers nice and easy to match if needed... Like HOTRODPAINT said it is very pricy at around $400 per quart...

Here is a photo of a bike I painted with that stuff...

Dave Brisco
Dangerous DesignWorx

Dangerous Toy,
Good job on the tanks! Your making me want to spend $1000 on paint. Im not a tight wad, but I dont know if my wife would let me spring for that. If I do, she would get her revenge by filling up the kitchen with another 30 or 40 gadgets. Again thanks for the inputs and if anyone else has more, Id be thankful. I want to do a nice job on my car, and Im not afraid to spend 400 or 500 hundred or so, Ive got 20 times that spent already. The only real colors Im considering are red, black, and a metallic dark silver,greyish color. I think I know what the ups and downs are to black and metallics, any thing I should know about Red other than that its expensive? Im sure it too would be hard to paint with identical matches if you did so two or three panels at a time. I think Im leaning towards taking the panels off and painting the lips etc that tuck under other panels either the red or metallic silver, reassemble, and then paint the entire car. If I ever get this thing going, Ill post pictures. Im taking it slow though. Ive bought a 60gal 3.5hp compressor, piping, and filter regulator(all installed) over the last two months. My next purchase is the gun which Im probably going to go with the devilbiss plus rp. Any thoughts. The sata's would again result in way too many kitchen appliances as retribution.